Hey {{first_name|Conscious Church Fam}} 👋
This week in AI was pretty cool.. A company famous for generating surreal images just revealed it wants to scan your internal organs.
Here’s what we’re covering:
🩺 Midjourney builds a spa that doubles as a full-body scanner
📊 Half of America is using AI — and most of them are worried about it
😩 Inside Meta’s “gulag”: why 6,500 engineers are revolting
Let’s dive in 👇
✍️ Josh's Musings
The comfortable kind of stuck
I've noticed a trick my mind plays, and I suspect I'm not the only one.
When I'm scared to make (and release) something, I think about it instead. I plan it. I research it. I talk about it with anyone who'll listen. I move things around on a screen. And the whole time it feels like progress.
It gets to 90% and then lives stuck on the shelf.
It isn't progress though. It's comfort dressed up as work. It soothes the part of me that wants to have made something, without ever risking the part of me that would have to actually make it. And the potential discomfort of it not landing as I would hope.
I think a lot of us are stuck in the comfortable kind of stuck. We're thinking our way toward a life instead of living our way into one. And thinking never leaves a mark. Only making does.
Here's the other thing I keep noticing. We say we just want good work. The best outcome, the cleanest result. But it isn't quite true. Show someone a piece of art they love, then tell them a machine made it, and watch the love drain out. We were never only buying the outcome. We were buying the person in it. The hours. The taste. The deposit of a soul you can feel even when you can't name it.
Which means the work isn't to get more efficient. The work is to be more present in the thing you make, and then to actually let it out of your hands.
Stay human. Stay wild
Josh
Image: The Decoder | The Conscious Church
Midjourney — the company you know for turning text prompts into surreal art — just announced their next big project, and it has nothing to do with images. They're building the Midjourney Scanner: a full-body ultrasound device that lowers you through a pool of water and a ring of half a million tiny sensors, each the size of a grain of sand. Sixty seconds later, you have a 3D map of your entire body. No radiation, no MRI claustrophobia — just sound waves and water. And then they're building a spa around it.
The Details:
Each of the 500,000 ultrasonic elements acts as both a speaker and a microphone, producing terabytes of raw data per second — equivalent to 500 hours of HD video for every single second of scan data
The first Midjourney Spa opens in San Francisco in 2027, pairing around 10 scanners with hot tubs, saunas, and cold plunges — available 24/7
Midjourney has no investors. They're community-backed, funded by users of their image tools — and are using those profits to fund this
Their goal: 50,000 scanners worldwide by 2031, with capacity for a billion scans a month — enough to give regular monthly scans to a significant chunk of the global population
They believe access to this kind of early imaging data could "avoid 30% of all deaths and 50% of all healthcare costs"
Conscious Take:
Midjourney has been my absolute favourite image gen over the years. I love the quality and they genuinely care about art in an AI world.. Well..This week this came out of left field.
They wrote: "We feel an obligation as people standing on the frontier to look at the foundations of the human experience and ask — what do we want to be different?"
That's a different question to the one most tech companies ask. Most ask what can we sell. Midjourney is asking what can we change.
The spa wrapper is genius: make premium health data feel like self-care, not medicine. And doing it without investors, funded by a community, that changes what they're optimising for. Worth watching.
Image: Pew Research / Getty Images | The Conscious Church
Pew Research just dropped its 2026 survey on how Americans actually feel about AI — and the numbers are a study in contradictions. Half the country is now using AI chatbots (up from a third just two years ago), but optimism about AI’s societal impact is barely budging. The more people use it, the more worried they seem to get.
The Details:
About 50% of US adults now use AI chatbots, with around 25% using them daily — a massive leap from 2024
40% of Americans expect AI to make society worse over the next 20 years; only 16% think it’ll be a net positive
The under-30 crowd uses AI the most but trusts it the least — only 14% see a positive societal future from it
ChatGPT leads at 44% of adults, Gemini at 24%, and Claude — despite being the constant topic of every AI podcast — sits at just 6%
Conscious Take:
That Claude stat is genuinely fascinating. The company every AI insider talks about barely registers with the average person. It’s a reminder that most of the AI conversation happens in a very small bubble.
But the bigger takeaway: people are using AI as a tool but don’t trust it as a force.
Image: TechCrunch / Getty Images | The Conscious Church
Picture this: you’re a senior engineer at Meta, and one day you get a surprise email telling you you’ve been “drafted” into a new AI unit. No discussion, no choice — just a new job generating training puzzles for AI models. Oh, and your managers are now tracking your mouse clicks to collect training data. That’s the reality inside Meta’s Applied AI unit right now, and employees are not happy. As one engineer put it: “It’s literally the gulag.”
The Details:
In March 2026, Meta shuffled roughly 6,500 engineers and product managers into the Applied AI unit via a surprise company-wide email
Employees describe being assigned to generate coding problems and puzzles to train AI agents — work many describe as “soul-crushing”
Someone hijacked a company-wide livestream to deliver an expletive-laden outburst against a senior AI executive
Over 1,600 employees signed a petition against Meta’s policy of tracking mouse clicks and keystrokes to collect AI training data
CTO Andrew Bosworth publicly admitted Meta “did an atrocious job explaining the vision” — comparing the morale hit to the Cambridge Analytica fallout
Conscious Take:
Meta, worth hundreds of billions, has managed to make some of the most sought-after workers in the world feel like they’re in a labour camp.
You can’t shortcut your way to trust, not with employees, not with users, not with anyone.
Better snack kitchens aren’t going to fix this.
What’s particularly striking is that this is happening while Meta is posting record profits. When the numbers are great but the people feel terrible, something has gone very wrong with the mission.
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Thanks for reading. Really.
"Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters." — Colossians 3:23
Build with the tools. But build for the right reasons.
That's all for now
Stay conscious,
Josh
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